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If an HR manager can deny you the job, it's not worth having.

• HeyLaughingBoy 17y ago
  Please expand on why you feel this way. That sentence is essentially meaningless. OK, I disagree: our HR people are excellent first line filters and save us wasting our time. If a candidate doesn't make it through HR it's because they either lied on their resume/cover letter, give off really bad vibes (we've found that every time the HR person ignores this, we turn the candidate down for the same reason), or is fundamentally unsuited to working on a team. I'd much rather have HR not schedule a tech interview if there's already a good reason to pass. And, yes, non-technical reasons are excellent reasons to pass on an otherwise good candidate. Do you really want to work with a smart person who drains everyone's morale?
  • holdenc 17y ago
    Reasons why "if an HR manager can deny you the job, it's not worth having": HR managers are corporate bureaucracy, and if they are making critical hiring decisions you can assume the company is bureaucratic. HR managers go by charm factor, like it or not. When you only need the very brightest, the charm factor is less important. HR managers like to believe they maintain a corporate status quo, which is a dangerous thing. And most often this means instituting policies of blandness and conformity, even via hiring selections.